October 07, 2003

Unicru Announces Total Workforce Acquisition Solution

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October 07, 2003 09:05 AM US Eastern Timezone

Unicru Announces Total Workforce Acquisition Solution Integrating Innovative Selection Science and Workforce Intelligence

HR Technology 2003

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 7, 2003--

Market Leader in Workforce Selection and Optimization Announces First Solution to Maximize the Quality and Business Impact of Hiring Decisions for Professional, Managerial and Hourly Staff

Unicru(R) Inc. today announced its first workforce recruiting, selection and hiring solution to provide an ongoing link between staffing strategies, business objectives and financial goals: the Unicru Total Workforce Acquisition solution. Exploiting a new generation of proprietary selection science, workforce intelligence and flexible Web services technology, Unicru is the only enterprise staffing solution designed to optimize the ongoing workforce quality of high performing professional, managerial and hourly staff. It is also the only solution to integrate industry-specific knowledge with closed-loop workforce performance analytics, providing continuous validation of selection strategies on business goals.

"Unicru's approach of using selection science to obtain people with the skills and attitudes to achieve business objectives has long delivered incredible value for companies that rely on hourly employees as the face of their business," said professor Jeffrey Pfeffer of the Stanford Business School and author of The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First. "By bringing these same advantages to the entire enterprise, Unicru dares the staffing technology industry to go beyond frequently misleading and inappropriate recruiting efficiency measures to focus on actual workforce performance, and how a company's people can actually execute strategy and deliver productivity, customer loyalty, and profitability."

Total Workforce Acquisition Solution

Unicru's Total Workforce Acquisition solution provides business unit and human resource executives, hiring managers and recruiters with objective insight into the likely fit and performance of candidates before the hiring decision is made. This is achieved through a unique combination of industry-specific knowledge with leadership technologies in scientific employee matching, assessment and selection, hiring manager decision-support, workforce intelligence and closed-loop process optimization. Unicru maps to key performance measures and the job-specific attributes that contribute to consistently achieving business success. For over six years Unicru has proven the effectiveness of its methodology, having electronically assessed and managed over 18 million applicants in partnership with leading corporations. Unicru's solution is used by six of the 40 largest employers in the US, more than any other staffing technology vendor.

Unicru SmartMatch: A Breakthrough in Salaried Recruiting

Designed to address a central issue that has blocked improvement in the quality of staffing processes, Unicru SmartMatch is an advanced, proprietary search and match engine that interacts with a recruiter and hiring manager to rapidly and accurately identify the most qualified candidates in a large pool of applicants. Using unique and innovative methods, Unicru SmartMatch builds a rich, objective profile of an applicant from their resume, application, screening questions, assessments and other information. Hundreds of attributes about a candidate are evaluated simultaneously leveraging a knowledge base containing industry, recruiter and hiring manager expertise to identify the best matches among thousands or millions of applicants in seconds.

SmartMatch 'understands' the structure of resumes enabling it to detect employment patterns, such as over-qualified candidates, and can alert recruiters to frequent 'job hoppers'. SmartMatch automatically learns more advanced concepts and predictive relationships with use, building its knowledge of jobs, skills, industries and their relationships. Optimized for each client's organization, SmartMatch can be taught each value in an employee and will improve its predictions based upon the performance of hires in that organization.

Unicru SmartMatch complements Unicru's validated behavioral assessment technology, SmartAssessments, providing a powerful and unique tool set for organizations to scientifically select workforces that align with business objectives. Third party assessments and services can also be integrated into the system.

Workforce Intelligence: Linking Selection to Business Performance

The second key advancement of the Unicru Total Workforce Acquisition solution is its robust workforce performance analytics tools and services that identify the direct impacts of workforce selection strategies on business metrics, such as workforce productivity, total staffing costs, sales and customer service performance. Unicru is the only staffing technology vendor to use continuous closed-loop feedback on the performance of hires within the customer's environment. Unicru reports on metrics of interest to both the VP of HR as well as CEO. These insights are then applied to provide decision support to individual hiring decisions as well as recommended optimization strategies that can improve the corporate bottom-line. New workforce intelligence tools and services are continuously developed by Unicru's world-class team of PhD I/O Psychologist, HCM Analytics, and AI researchers.

The Unicru Total Workforce Acquisition solution is available as an integrated solution or as separate Salaried and Hourly solutions.

Unicru Salaried Solution

The foundation of Unicru's Salaried Solution is a proven talent management platform that leverages advanced Microsoft .NET Web services to enable rapid, low cost, configuration, integration and implementation of advanced recruiting workflows. The product of over three years of collaborative design and engineering with leading global corporate staffing organizations, Unicru's Salaried Solution is designed to optimize quality outcomes in the sourcing, screening, matching, assessing, interviewing and hiring of professional and managerial staff. Its underlying talent management functionality offers:

-- A robust online candidate experience, enabling applicants to apply for positions online, manage personal profiles, and check the status of their applications.

-- Completely configurable workflows for all stages of the candidate relationship, giving each user the flexibility to manage the different processes they require.

-- Streamlined requisition and offer approvals for hiring managers and recruiters.

-- Assisted communication and collaboration between hiring managers, recruiters and candidates, including Microsoft Outlook integration.

-- Deep integration of advanced selection science into the recruiting process, including Unicru SmartMatch and Unicru SmartAssessments.

-- Integration with HRIS, ERP, payroll, sourcing and employment service providers.

Unicru Hourly Solution

Unicru is also announcing significant enhancements to its Hourly Solution, including a broader SmartAssessments portfolio, support for re-hire processes, drug screening integration, and robust new self-service workforce quality and compliance reporting tools. The Unicru Hourly Solution enables employers of frontline workers to consistently apply best hiring practices across all locations, giving managers more time to focus on customer satisfaction by enabling them to more quickly and efficiently hire the candidates that provide an excellent customer experience. The Hourly Solution lowers hiring and labor costs by presenting only the best candidates -- with insight into their strengths and weaknesses -- to hiring management, streamlining tax credit capture and minimizing the payment of non-qualifying unemployment claims, among other benefits. The system also features job-specific employee selection modules, which focus on the key personality traits and skills associated with job success within managerial and frontline positions in different industries.

Availability

The Unicru Total Workforce Acquisition solution will be available December 2003 with vertical market editions for the Retail, Grocery, Hospitality, and Dining industries.

About Unicru

Unicru is the leading provider of Total Workforce Acquisition solutions that enable enterprises to systematically select the highest quality employees across job roles throughout the enterprise to positively impact corporate outcomes through workforce initiatives. Unicru combines scientifically-proven employee selection assessments, applicant recruitment, hiring management decision support, and complete data capture for measurement and continuous improvement of business results, for over 60 enterprises including Albertsons, Bennigan's, Universal Studios, Blockbuster, Marriott, CVS, Kroger, and Southeastern Freightlines. For more information, visit www.unicru.com.

Unicru is a registered trademark of Unicru, Inc.

Contacts


Unicru
Kim Beasley, 503-596-3409
[email protected]

Posted by Craig at October 7, 2003 02:47 PM